FAITH AND RECOVERY

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FAITH AND RECOVERY
Spring Training Institute Lake of the Ozarks May,
2008
Brother Wayne White, Executive Director,
Footprints, Inc., Kansas City, MO Rev. Ladell M.
Flowers, Executive Director, Dismas House of
Kansas City, Inc. Jane Pfefferkorn, Executive
Director, Mission Missouri, Sikeston, MO
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Overview of Presentation

• The role of Recovery Support Access Sites in the
  service delivery system
• The role of faith in client engagement
• The challenges of expanding access to treatment

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Role of Recovery Support Access Sites - Brother
Wayne White

• History of Access to Recovery I
• 3 year, 22.8 million grant awarded to Missouri
  in 2004 by SAMHSA to improve access to substance
  abuse treatment and increase capacity while
  ensuring choice of faith-based, non traditional
  or traditional treatment or recovery support
  providers
• Originally 10 faith-based providers were
  established as Pilot Programs in the Access To
  Recovery I Grant

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Results of ATR I

• Served over 48,500 unduplicated consumers
• Credentialed 122 recovery support provider
  organizations
• Involved 108 Faith-based recovery support
  providers
• Lives changed!

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Adding Recovery Support Services to Clinical Tx
Services

• Increased the average consumers length of
  engagement in services by 30
• Lowered alcohol and drug abuse
• Lowered involvement with the criminal justice
  system
• Increased employment and education involvement

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ATR II Access Sites

• 7 Access Sites (former Pilot Programs)
• Church Army Branson (Branson)
• Dismas House of Kansas City, Inc.
• Footprints, Inc. (Kansas City)
• Mission Missouri (Sikeston)
• Recovery Chapel (Springfield)
• My Redeemer Lives Ministry (St. Louis)
• Youth Awareness Program (St. Louis)

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Access Sites Tasks

• Access Site programs perform these tasks for
  their clients and for the clients of other
  Recovery Support Providers who are not currently
  enrolled in Department-certified substance abuse
  tx programs
• Utilize outreach activities to solicit and engage
  previously unserved consumers
• Assess, screen, and administer the Government
  Performance Results Act (GPRA) outcomes
  measurement tool
• Enroll clients and issue vouchers

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• Provide or, make arrangements for 24 hour crisis
  assistance
• Provide client outreach and care coordination
• Utilize DMHs management information system
  (CIMOR) relating to outcome measurement
• Administer the Outcome Measurement instrument at
  the time of admission, six months after admission
  and discharge

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New to ATR II for Access Sites

• Provide Outcome Measurement-Consumer Tracking for
  the purpose of contacting clients or collateral
  contacts to verify and update information to
  obtain the 6 month follow-up GPRA
• Minimum expectation of 80 six month follow-up
  GPRAs to be administered

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How Access Sites Enhance the ATR II Service
Delivery System

• Contacts with alcoholics and addicts who have
  never been part of the treatment system of care
• Capacity to engage the people
• Connections to referrals and resources
• Compassion

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• They dont care how much you know until they know
  how much you care!

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Footprints, Inc.

• History
• Outreach
• Services
• Outcomes
• Dreams

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AMERICA AND FAITHRev. Ladell Flowers

• Faith Based Assessment
• Do you believe in God or Higher Power
• Majority Christian
• Islam
• Jewish
• Unsure (2 out of 100)

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U.S. FAITH COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS

• CURRENT TOTAL U.S. POPULATION 281,421,906
• TOP THREE FAITH BASED POPULATIONS IN 2004
  229,991,398
• FAITH BASED PERCENTAGE 2004- 81.7
  (60 Without Youth)
• Adherents .com Barna Poll
• Pew Research Council

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NATIONAL STATISTICS

• 2005 SAMHSA 20.0 Million needed substance
  treatment but didnt receive it.
• 94 of those people did not feel they needed
  treatment

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FAITH WORKS

• Missouri Faith Based (ATR) increases access for
  45 of new clients
• FAITH GOES AFTER THE MOUNTAIN

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Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment
vs Treatment With Recovery Supports
Data indicates adding Recovery Support services
to Clinical Treatment services increases
abstinence, decreases involvement in the criminal
justice system, increases employment or
educational involvement and increases length of
involvement in treatment.   Data sources GPRA,
CTRAC, POS  
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Division of Alcohol and Drug AbuseTreatment vs
Treatment With Recovery Supports 
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Faith Perpetuates Hope and Love

• Faith helps people to focus on and reach for
  essentials in life they need but cannot
  necessarily see with their physical eyes or touch
  with their physical hand.

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FAITH COMMUNITYLove and Action

• Matthew 25 36-40 (Paraphrased)
• I was hungry
• I was thirsty
• I was a stranger
• I was sick
• I was naked
• I was in prison

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Dismas House of Kansas City, Inc.

• Who was Dismas? - Dismas represents the good
  thief on the cross who in his dying hour asked
  to be remembered in paradise. The concept was
  simply its never too late to reform if an
  individual so chooses.

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Ethnic Make-up of Participants

• 94.2 African American
• 2.7 Hispanic
• 2.7 European American

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Drug of Choice Among Participants

• 66.6 use marijuana
• 8.5 use cocaine
• 13.8 use PCP
• 11.1 use Crack
• 41.7 use more than one drug or substance

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Traditional Interventions

• Treatment Objectives
• Group Counseling
• Individual counseling
• Hours Substance Abuse Education
• Case Management as needed
• Random UA Drops.
• Anger Management / Domestic Violence

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Faith-Based / Spiritual Interventions

• Unconditional Love Hope, reassurance, and
  compassion.
• Respect Creation of God, not a number, thing or
  victim.
• Pastoral Counseling-Reconnect
• Spiritual Awareness Classes How do you access
  spirituality
• Bibliotheraphy Assignments Scriptures, Ayats,
  Suras, other Inspirational items.
• Prayer Divine Intervention

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Client Evaluation

• Each Client received ISAP/ASI Assessment.
• Each client receives a Faith -Based assessment
  based on established criteria, prior to the
  program and again at the conclusion of the
  program.

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Client Evaluation

• Attitude
• Commitment
• Environment
• Spirituality
• Community Resources (Employment, Education,
  Training)

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Spirituality

• Client believes that a greater power than
  themselves exist.
• Client participates in AA, NA or CAG
• Client receptive to bibliotherapy assignment.
• Client is able to identify someone they love.
• Client is able to identify a situation in which
  they felt they experienced presence of a power
  greater than themselves during a sober period.

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Client Evaluation Successful Completion

• The average person entering the Dismas program
  looks like this
• Attitude 3.44
• Commitment 3.56
• Environment 2.22
• Resource/Employment 1.97
• Spirituality 2.38

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MEASURED OUTCOMES

• Eighty-One Percent Non Recidivism
• Sixty Five Percent Abstinence (evidenced by exit
  drug screen)

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A Living Soul

• So it is written, The first man Adam was made a
  living soul the last Adam was made a quickening
  spirit.
• I Corinthians 1545

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Faith, a Belief in Motion
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Challenges of Expanding Access to Treatment
Jane Pfefferkorn

• Resources
• Relationships
• Renewal

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Resources

• ATR II vouchers dropped from 1,000 per client to
  500 per client
• Access Sites provide oversight of the Recovery
  Support dollars for their site and the providers
  for whom they provide vouchers
• All RSS providers must find additional dollars
  for sustainability
• Ministry vs. Business

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Relationships

• Overcoming stigma of addiction so that
  volunteers and resources can be accessed in faith
  community
• Engaging recovery community while protecting
  their anonymity
• Partnering with professional community through
  willingness to receive training
• Balancing oversight and support for RSS
• providers
• Becoming effective partners with Treatment Centers

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Renewal

• Personal Renewal
• Faith walk
• Spiritual renewal
• Support and networking with other providers
• Organizational Renewal
• Staff training, support, encouragement
• Transitions and Changes
• Willingness to try something new

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One Example

• Mission Missouri
• Gibson Recovery Center, Treatment facility in
  Cape Girardeau
• Mentoring/Partnership
• Suggestion of Mark Shields, ATR II Director
• Program change to our residential component
• Initiated Pre-Treatment Housing detox at Tx
  stay at MM 4 weeks go to Tx for residential
• Implemented successfully in less than two weeks
• Potential to save lives and bring more people to
  Tx, RSS, and long-term recovery

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The Challenge of Expanding Access to Treatment
will be met by

• Creativity
• Communication
• With others
• With God
• Commitment to
• our Calling Our Model Program